Two reasons for this post... 1. Propose the use of "TIP: ..." in Subject when one discovers something new which might be of interest to the general population. 2. Post a tip about "less"... After many years of using "less" (circa '90 IIRC), I still had not discovered this feature... less supports preprocessing, so instead of trying to figure out or remember commands like "prm -qpil" to see what files are provided in a *.rpm file, just try: less <file>.rpm which will dump the package info and list of files only; not all the binary stuff as I'd expected... To see what else less preprocesses, here's a hint: LESSOPEN=|/usr/bin/lesspipe.sh %s HTH someone, Pierre
